Top 10 smartphone innovations of 2011Blog 12/30/2011 26 commentsAs smartphones become ever more ubiquitous and the speed of mobile innovation increases exponentially month by month, keeping track of the big innovations over a full year can seem a futile task. The changes, once recorded seem almost incremental when looked at through the year’s rear view mirror.

Top 10 innovative USBs and peripheralsBlog 12/14/2011 22 commentsThe following list takes a look at some of the more innovative, original and flamboyant USBs and USB peripherals, ranging from the secure and practical right through to the gimmicky and flamboyant.

Google doodle celebrates Robert NoyceBlog 12/12/2011 16 commentsThe doodle for Dec. 12, 2011 on www.google.com celebrates 84 years since the birth the Robert Noyce, one of the inventors of the integrated circuit and a co-founder of both Fairchild Corp. and Intel Corp.

Big brain radio, part 2Blog 12/1/2011 1 commentCognitive radios were now too busy to figure out how to route phone messages, so they decided to put humans to work doing this. The task occupied the time of all humans alive.